A First-Person Look At The World’s Best StarCraft Player’s Skills

Those are the blazing hands of the current StarCraft II World Champion and by far the best player in the world, STX_INnoVation, participating in the WCG Korea Qualifiers. He’s easily tearing apart a Protoss opponent with his unmatched Terran skills and rapid-fire decision making. He probably doesn’t even recognize that GomTV’s own StarCraft II caster,…

Chasing Aliens Leads to Something Disturbing in Live-Action XCOM Video

If you’ve been watching the YouTube series attached to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, you know that agent Ennis Cole is obsessed with hunting down the aliens among us for very personal reasons. Well, in this latest episode, he finally tracks one down. Then he probably wishes he hadn’t. You can watch the rest of Ennis…

One Piece‘s Creator Still Sidelined Amid Concerns

Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, skipped the deadline for several issues of his popular manga earlier this spring due to illness. It seems he is still recovering. According to the latest issue of Shonen Jump, One Piece will once again be missing an issue. Originally, Oda was hospitalized in May for a tonsil…

Euro Truck Simulator 2 isn’t just about piloting our rigs across Europe, visiting world famous landmarks. On rare occasions we have to deliver cargo beyond the bounds of this dimension. Call it extreme off-roading. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…

Let’s Spend Some Hands-On Time with Dragon’s Crown

While the release of Dragon’s Crown in North America is still a few weeks away, Vanillaware’s newest title hit Japanese shelves yesterday—a copy of which has already found a new home in my PlayStation 3. So click the video above and let’s sit down together and look at Dragon’s Crown‘s single player and online multiplayer…

Giant Mobile Battle Suits Overrun Hong Kong

Starting this week, if you head down to Hong Kong’s Time Square Shopping Center, you’ll see more than chic retailers. You’ll see giant mecha. The “Gundam Docks at Hong Kong” exhibit kicked off on July 26 and will run until the beginning of September. In front of the Time Square Shopping Center, you can see…

Amazingly, A One-Man Studio Is Responsible For This Beautiful RTS

Slated to arrive next year, Elder Games’ Meridian: New World is already looking great. Especially for a one-man game. Meridian is described as a single-player Sci-Fi RTS with a focus on storytelling and careful strategizing. Your in-game avatar, Commander Daniel Hanson, leads the very first expedition to the alien planet of Meridian, to explore the…

Valvrave Mixes an Over-the-Top Premise with Real World Consequences

Back in the middle of the spring anime season, I called Valvrave: The Liberator one of the five anime you should be watching. Now that all the episodes have aired, I can understand that it may not be for everyone; but for me, it was one of the most crazy and utterly enjoyable anime of…

Cyberpunk RPG-brawler thingamajig Mars: War Logs is now out on Xbox 360 via the Live Arcade. Its PS3 version is expected to arrive on August 7 in Europe, and later that month in the US.

Old-School Charm and A Deep Crafting System Meet In This Fantasy CRPG

This is Balrum. It’s a top-down RPG, and it looks absolutely phenomenal. Sadly, it still needs to be funded The developers of Balrum, who call themselves Balcony Team, are promising a veritable bevy of features; a world filled with living NPCs, turn-based combat with over a hundred different spells and abilities, survival gameplay elements such…

Why I am Reluctantly Okay With Cutting the Sex Out Of Visual Novels

Late last month, If My Heart Had Wings, a winner of several visual novel related awards, was released in the United States. This English version of the game has all the sex scenes removed and numerous scenes and lines of dialogue edited to fit a “T for Teen” rating. And while I stand by what…

After 200 Alpha Builds, Overgrowth is Still All About Rabbit Violence

That’s gorgeously animated rabbit violence, mind you. Indie PC beat-em-up Overgrowth sure is coming along nicely, having just received a video for its two hundredth alpha build, detailing the latest developments in lagomorph brawling and swordfighting. As usual, pre-order customers are free to give the build a try.

Penis-Powered Game Gets Oculus Rift Support

Custom Maid 3D, the erotic computer game with a cock controller, is grinding out a historic update: Oculus Rift support. VR gaming with things people put their penises in will never be the same! Thanks to a new beta patch, now players can enjoy virtual reality head-mounted gaming as they enjoy controlling the game with…

Game Creator Keiji Inafune Appears in a Dating Game

Sweet Fuse, the dating game with game designer Keiji Inafune (Dead Rising, Mega Man), will be out on the PSP this August in North America. In the game, you are Inafune’s niece (no, you don’t date him). Along with seven sexy bachelors, you must save the fame game creator from being held hostage. As Siliconera…

Dead Rising 3 Will Be Gritty, But Not Too Gritty

Capcom’s newest zombie-slaying sandbox for the Xbox One may not be a laugh riot, but that doesn’t mean all the silliness is gone. As evidence, I submit these screenshots, released by developer Capcom Vancouver after their initial showing at Comic-Con Dead Rising 3 is expected to hit this November as a launch title for the…

Unexpected Chaos Makes Japanese TV Fun

Westerners often say Japanese TV is “odd.” It’s not, really—even less so once you understand what people are actually saying. That doesn’t mean that peculiar or unexpected things don’t sometimes happen. The Japanese word “hapuningu” (ハプニング) uses the English loan word “happening” to refer to unexpected events. It could be the TV producers who don’t…

Chrono Trigger In 1080p Looks Great

Reader Rick has been hard at work recreating the intro to classic RPG Chrono Trigger in high definition. He’s now done, and it looks like it was all worth it. He recommends you make sure you’re watching in 1080p. I concur.

Cut Off Some Noses And Lord Of The Rings Gets Funnier

Not that the trilogy is lacking in lighter moments starring hobbits, whether intentional or not, but lop off their noses and suddenly things get lighter You’ll find more noseless gifs at the link below. They are the best way to spend a tea break. [Noseless Gifs]

A Video Game That Simulates Being Completely Wasted

Combine a difficult surgery simulator with a virtual reality headset and a fancy control system and you get…the physical effects of being super drunk, sans the bravado (and the hangover). Yes, this is nothing more than Surgery Simulator 2013 paired with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and Razer Hydra motion-control system. Three things that…

Activision Blizzard used to be owned by media giant Vivendi. Not anymore. It’s now a free company, having bought Vivendi’s stake out. You could say it’s gone indie, but that joke’s going to wear pretty thin over the next 24 hours. Fun fact: Activision boss Bobby Kotick and co-chair Brian Kelly paid $100 million of…